Watch the trailer for Steve McQueen’s new film set in London during the blitz
IT was a defining chapter of World War Two, when Britain stood at the mercy of Hitler as the full force of his Luftwaffe rained down.has been brought to the big screen in a movie that stirs painful memories for survivors who were there as the nation stood on the brink.
I said, ‘I don’t want to be evacuated.’ My mum said, ‘No, if we’re going to die, we’re going to die together’Retired seamstress Rosemary tells how the train line backing on to her family’s terraced home in West London was a Not everyone, though, was pulling together for the national good, which is reflected in the movie by actor Stephen Graham’s portrayal of a thief raiding a wrecked
Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s decision not to surrender to the Germans proved to be a major turning point in the war.“There were naval guns travelling up and down the railway line, trying to shoot down bombers coming over to get to central London.” A lot of people got injured by the bullet cases coming from the skies. In Ilford quite a few people were killed.He was evacuated to Ipswich when war was declared in 1939, but returned home after a few months because so little fighting took place on the Western Front in the first eight months of the conflict, which was nicknamed the “phoney war”.
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